Baoquanli

The term Bāoquánlǐ (Chinese 包 拳 礼) is a form of greeting without a bow in Chinese martial arts.

One adopts the concentration attitude ( Li zheng ). The right hand forms a fist and is held in the left hand, both hands are at chin level. The right hand symbolizes Yang and the sun, the left hand stands for Yin and the moon. The hand sign indicates the harmony of Yin and Yang . If you add the characters for the sun and moon together, you get the word Míng (Chinese 明), which means bright, shining. But Ming was also a Chinese dynasty that many people fought for under the Qing dynasty . This hand sign was a symbol of the Ming followers.

literature

• Werner Lind : The dictionary of martial arts. China, Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, India, Mongolia, Philippines, Taiwan, etc. a. Special edition Sportverlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-328-00898-5 .